Bassa, Hamuda, fl. 1803-1807 to Tobias Lear re: Bassa accepting Lear's diplomatic authority
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02794.077 Author/Creator: Bassa, Hamuda, fl. 1803-1807 Place Written: Tunis Type: Manuscript document Date: 1805/08/05 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 31.7 cm, Width: 19.7 cm Order a Copy
Translation in a clerk's hand of GLC 2794.076: "[Y]ou are appointed as [Consul] to all the Powers whose coasts are wet by the Mediterranean, and as I am one of those powers, I make not the least difficulty to the contrary." This comment comes after Bashaw had originally refused to see Lear.
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